Translations of the user interface are included for the following languages:

Image Eye is a specialized image viewer — made for the sole purpose of viewing images as quickly and practically as possible — nothing else!
You get a window with the picture only — no bulky menus, tool-bars or other fancy but annoying clutter.
By default, even the window title-bar is hidden when you don't need it, leaving just a thin black border around the image.
There's also are many handy and practical user interface 'tricks' (e.g. hit Ctrl–Alt–X to close all image windows).

This software is "donationware". This is a type of freeware. It is 100% free for non-commercial use - there's no advertising, no time limit, no reg-codes, no crippled features.
However, if you use and like it, then please consider making a donation here — as a "thank you", and to support its continued development.

High quality dithering: Floyd-Steinberg dithering is used for superior perceived image quality when displaying high bit-depth images.

Asynchronous file I/O: Images are decompressed at the same time as data is being read - i.e. it doesn't wait for file reads to finish before starting to decode.

Speculative decoding & caching of images: While you view a file, the next file in the folder is invisibly being decoded, so that it can be brought up very quickly. And when you move to a new image, the old one is remembered (if memory allows), so that there's little delay if you toggle back and forth between images.

Data parallelism exploitation: Many heavy computational tasks are considerably sped up by using SEE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSE4 instructions. These "SIMD instructions" work on 4, 8 or even 16 numbers in parallel.

Task parallelism exploitation: Heavy computational work is considerably sped up by dividing big jobs into smaller tasks that are distributed on multiple CPU cores (if available). Work stealing and dynamic load balancing techniques ensure that all cores are busy.

The last viewed image is automatically selected and the file list is scrolled so that it is visible.

The most recent folders from which an image has been opened are remembered in a list and you can go back again to them very quickly (this can be turned off for privacy).

Open an index view of all images in the directory by pressing a single button.

Viewer window:

Launch the program and open images in multiple ways — choose the one that suits you best! You can launch it from the start menu, by clicking on a file in the Windows Explorer, or from an already open Image Eye window.

Browse images in a directory using the index mode, or using the 'open image file' dialog, or from a viewer window using previous/next image commands, or by pressing down the mouse wheel (if you have one) and rotating it.

Image adjustments can be saved and automatically re-applied the next time you open the image file — all without modifying the original image file.

File operations: Copy, rename, move, delete, erase. The erase command will wipe the file several times with random data before setting the file size to 0 then deleting it (bypassing the recycle bin) — use for sensitive data.

Function to capture images of the while screen shots or of selected windows.

View images in windowed or in full-screen mode.

Freeze mode sticks an image to the desktop so that it can't be moved until unfroozen — and it is automatically opened again if you restart your computer.

Zoom in and out using high quality filtering.

Set images as the Windows wallpaper.

Index window:

Fast thumbnail index creation.

The 'recurse sub-directories' command lets you optionally create an index displaying all files of all sub-directories.

Optionally save thumbnail icons in a cache file on disk for even faster retrieval next time.

Install the program on your main computer using any of the above installers, then grab the Image Eye.exe file that was installed.
If you run it on a computer where it has not been installed, then settings are not remembered - and nothing will be stored in the registry et c, thus leaving an entirely untouched system.
This is useful e.g. if you want to run it from a USB-key on a borrowed computer.

Image Eye is quite easy to translate into other languages.
Only a 'translation dictionary' in the form of a simple text file has to be created.
What with Image Eye being free, we can't afford to hire people to do translations though…

This is where you can help! If you'd like a version of Image Eye in your own
language and are willing sit down a few hours and translate it, then it can happen!

Interested?Contact us and we will get back to you with more information!

Send us a donation!

For non-commercial use, Image Eye is "donationware".
This is a type of freeware — you don't have to pay for it and there's no nag boxes, no advertising, no time limit, no crippled features.
However we do make this plea: That if you use it and like it, you can make a voluntary donation — both as a "thank you", and to support the continued development of Image Eye.
It has taken a lot of time to develop this software.
You decide the amount to donate!

For commercial use, please contact us and ask about low cost licensing options.

Note: Your donation will be processed by PayPal.(please donate a minimum of USD 10, otherwise too much will be eaten up by transaction costs).

Your donation will helps us greatly in continuing to improve Image Eye!

If you are looking for a fast and quality image viewer program with a clean user interface, it must be Image Eye.
It became my favorite program in short time. Also it doesn't use high system sources which makes it user friendly.

Dr. Umut Yilmaz

Image Eye is the best software product I've ever purchased, I use it all the time and you always advise me of updates.

Thanks, Greg Lenz

I am an amateur photographer and scan in quite a few of my photographs. Image Eye
provides the best displays of any software I have used when I show friends my
photos. I assume it has to do with the method you use to dither, in any event
my photos have a very smooth look on the monitor with your software. I have
tried quite a large number of commercial, shareware and freeware programs but
Image Eye produces the most pleasing results for viewing of any I have used.

Richard Peterson

I must let you know that immediately after downloading Image Eye three days ago, linked from Voyetra, I wanted to register first chance.
I am very pleased with the output quality and slick presentation.
Unabashedly, I must tell you that this program is one-of-a-kind, not-to-mention the brains behind.
The Indexing, slideshow and view options.

My best regards,
E. Noly Pangilinan

Image Eye should be part of the Windows system.
I can't say how often I'm using Image Eye, because it is part of my system.